Plan B

Yep, not going to Kilimanjaro, time out, or I would miss my flight back.

Plan B: hopefully I'll manage to arrange a trip to Mount Kenya, but I won't have the time to go do the climbing part (let alone that I haven't climbed for one and a half years). I'm going to Nairobbery for the weekend with Katrin, still plenty of things to do there.

I'm expecting a struggle getting my money back from Keffa. Luckily, I have a safety net there, he's a teacher at Katrin's school, when this has happened before (and you wonder why he's still teaching there...) money he owed to another teacher was in the end withdrawn from his salery!
I don't have a safety net with Paul, however. Now Paul is the travel agent who got me in touch with the diving instructors. I paid him a sum of four hundred dollars, but in the end, only about 200 euros came through and I had to pay the rest myself. Now I'm battling with him to get my money back. He said that there was some second agent in Mombasa that means to keep the money, around 160 dollars remaining. Now the "guy in Mombasa" (and you wonder whether there really is a guy in Mombasa,) has sent a check to Paul, but Paul does still not want to pay me the amount due, - yet. Always saying wait, wait... and it's all about biding time because he knows that I'll run out of time and eventually stop bothering him.

What I find the most frustrating is the complete lack of customer service I have met with the two local tour operators that I have done business with. You end up with not trusting the locals, when they keep biting the hand that feeds them.
In both cases they're saying sorry sorry for the inconvenience, but offering nothing to redeem for it. And I'm having to struggle to meet with them, they don't come or call as they say they will and I'm going to have to chase them if I want mine back.

And what is very annoying is also to have to spend a vacation hunting down fakes and phoneys and cheaters and liars, when I would rather spend my time doing something completely different.